Archives for January 2017

I was on a crowded train heading back to London last weekend and a pretty young woman – a student by the look of her – sat herself next to me. We exchanged the silent smile and nod greeting and then I turned my attention back to the window [Read more…]

In the journal notes for his official autobiography, Baggaley claims he was in Barcelona and fighting with the anarchists alongside Hemingway in 1937, and that he lost his arm at the battle of Ebro the following year. [Read more…]